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- I totally agree with your earlier post and the sentiment here: that you can't discuss how genders interact without discussing both genders. But gender is not binary. A lot of people on in this world and on this site live
(posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form) - 2 things: the florida player's dirty play was a lot more serious because eye injuries are so much more serious. second, even with that, i'm not sure it got more "heat", compared to market share. The florida-georgia game was already
(posted to When Soccer Players Attack) - The way in which the military caters to the straight male sexual perspective to the exclusion of female perspectives codifies the prioritization of male sexual needs in the military over females, which is the basic M.O. of rape. I grew
(posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?) - I'm sick and tired of the explanation for rape being limited to just a couple words. Rape has complicated causes. "Power and control" doesn't account for all of them, neither does "body image". Both are often at play at the
(posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form) - The logic problem here is that you are assuming that if cis het men were told their bodies were unappealing, they would opt to follow the feminine ideal. This is a faulty assumption. Men are also taught that to be
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- Well, most men (myself included) need a visual image to masturbate to, or we just can't get off - which is why so many men (myself included) use porn. So, if you don't want to let these guys look at (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
- I don't agree with the premise that this kind of thing only happens in the military. It's famous for happening at college fraternities, and in the context of celebrating college sports events. (Armies and universities both take very young adults (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
- Men won't suffer problems of anorexia and bulimia for a simple reason: Being very thin for a male is seen as a bad thing. I can say that as a transsexual woman who has experienced both sides of people's comments (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
- Furthermore, men are not encouraged to change their bodies in order to appeal to women. They take for granted that male bodies are not as attractive as female ones, but are only rarely encouraged to lose weight and never encouraged (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
- I actually know a few het men who crossdress. They do this, primarily, because they think women are so hot, they want to look like one. They're not transgendered, they're not gay, one is overweight and embarrassed to wear a (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
